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putrescence
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What does putrescence mean?
noun
- The condition of being putrid; decay
- Putrid matter
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Moreover, it turns very brown and, in a couple of days, becomes a mass of black putrescence.
Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt.
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Mr. Gosse conjectures that its use may be, by holding animalcules till they die and decay, to attract by their putrescence crowds of other animalcules, which may thus be drawn within the influence of the polype’s ciliated tentacles.
One of the brothers died some days before the other, and the survivor, after carrying about his dead brother, succumbed to "infection from putrescence."
The cavity of the joint becomes more or less tensely distended, according to the amount of drainage present, which in this case is almost nil, with matter in a state of putrescence.